It's been proposed that the sensible nominal temporal aperture
surround volume increases with the complexity of its
"owner". The temporal aperture of a single cell creature
was compared with the infinite temporal aperture of a Deity - one
extreme to another. It was proposed that the extent or "size"
of all intermediate temporal aperture surrounds between these two
extremes would lie on a continuum.

Resonant
with temporal aperture continuum notion is the respective genetic
complexity of all the creatures along that continuum. That genetic
complexity shares a parallel continuum, i.e., the more complex the
creature, the more extensive its temporal aperture.

However,
genetic complexity may plateau as more transcendent temporal aperture
scenarios can't be directly accessed by conceivable physical creatures.
Evolution seems to lead towards development of creatures who
increasingly can apprehend this idea and make sense of it. Thus, a
physically based creature may only approach the extent of infinite
temporal aperture asymptotically. At some limiting level, incremental
developments in genetic structure cause disproportionately large
temporal aperture extent increases. Thus the temporal aperture volume
difference between an amoeba and gorilla is moderate when compared
to the potential volume difference between a gorilla (blue dot) and a human
being (red dot and above), even though there's
an enormous DNA complexity jump in the first comparison group and just a
few percent in the second. This may not be the final curve shape, but it
serves to illustrate the proposed notion.

At
some limiting stage in evolution, it is proposed that a relatively small
genetic complexity increase causes an enormous rise in temporal aperture
extent. Thus we can understand how spiritual leaders may appear from
time to time. It may only take some tiny, undefined genetic
pattern variation to engender such a creature. The difference
between a person with a very extensive temporal aperture and a more
limited person would be incremental from a genetics perspective.

In
our temporal aperture model, just the tiniest genetic variation may
separate the KMart clerk from being Jesus, Buddha, or whomever other
spiritual leader to be.